Comment: The US -Russian mutual reprimanded contract restrictions in the nuclear marti

Source: Ming Pao

The United States for the first time on Tuesday (January 31) that Russia did not allow investigators not to go to the field inspection and obstruct the consultation, and violate the new strategic weapon treaty ("New Start") clause.Russia denied violations of the contract, suggesting that the development of the incident was related to the Western position in the Russian and Ukraine war. It also rejected the "destroy" martial arts agreement in the United States to warn any responsibility for upgrading the problem in Washington.The New Start is the only nuclear military agreement between the United States and Russia. If the treaty fails, the nuclear non -diffusion structure established by the United States and Russia in the past few decades has almost completely collapsed.

The U.S. State Department reported to Congress for the first time on Tuesday, saying that the United States had accused Russia on violations of New Start on Russia's refusal to inspect inspection and refuse to discuss with US officials.The State Council also issued a statement to the media that Russia's rejection of "hindering the important rights under the Treaty of the United States and threatening the US -Russian nuclear military control that is expected to be implemented."

The number of troops in the United States and Russia to check the number of warheads of mutual warriors

New Start is the only reserved troops in the United States and Russia to date. It is stated that the number of intercontinental missile deployment is limited to 700, and the nuclear warheads should be reduced to no more than 1550.In the case, the two sides can also be a strategic security provider.Due to the crown disease epidemic, the field survey was suspended in March 2020.The United States requested to restart verification in August last year, but in response to the tension of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the Russian side refused to demand.Russia claims that the suspension of audit and cooperation is because the United States has implemented tourism restrictions on Russian personnel for the Ukrainian war. There is no regular flight between the two countries, and the US allies have closed their lead to Russian aircraft.A US State Department spokesman said on Tuesday that no one obstructs Russian personnel to go to the United States to check on the local area according to the treaty.

Russia subsequently delayed the negotiations originally scheduled to be scheduled to be in Cairo, Egypt on November 29 last year, accusing the United States "vicious and hostile".

The Russian International Confinement News Agency and Tas News reported yesterday that when the Russian Ambassador to the United States Anatoly Antonov explained Russia's approach, "arms control cannot be independent of geopolitical reality."The U.S. government stated that the occurrence of the Treaty's suspension was "the direct result of the West's launch of a mixing war in the West", and the responsibility of deterioration in the situation was all in the United States.The Kremlin spokesman Peskov said on Wednesday that the treaty maintained is very important, but the United States has "destroyed" the legal framework of martial arts and security.

After the United States Republican Party controlled the House of Representatives in January this year, he asked Secretary of State Brosky to report whether Russia violated the treaty by January 31.A batch of Republican members of the National Defense Policy, including the Chairman of the House Military Commission Mike Rogers, criticized Bayeng's "naive" in 2021 to extend New Start, thinking that Russia could not believe that Russia complied with international agreements and called on Biden to instruct the Ministry of National Defense to advance early early.Prepare Russia to deploy warheads with a maximum limit specified in the treaty.

The Russian official treaty period is no longer continued

Russian News Agency reported on Monday (January 30) that Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Riabakov said that because the United States tried to "strategically defeat" Russia because the United States tried to "strategically defeat" Russia.No longer continue.If the New Start ended or fails, it will be the first time that the United States and Russia have not had a treaty to limit the number of nuclear weapons since the 1970s, and the two countries can no longer inspect each other's reserves.Experts pointed out that the treaty failed to help a new round of arms competitions.